specter
发音
英 ['spektə]
美 [ˈspɛktɚ]
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- n.
- 鬼怪
- 幽灵
- 缠绕心头的恐惧
- 凶兆
单词词源
specter 鬼，幽灵，恐惧，恐慌
来自拉丁语 spectrum,出现，显示，影像，鬼魂，幽灵，来自 specere,看，词源同 spectate,aspect.
双语例句
- 1. A specter is haunting the world-the return of capitalism .
- 一个幽灵在地球上游荡资本主义又回来了。
- 2. Chaney was left alone for months , haunted by the specter of the feds .
- 钱尼被独自关了几个月，联邦调查局的幽灵困扰着他。
- 3. No man , if he be truthful , can say that the specter of war is banished .
- 没有人，如果他是真诚的，能够说战争的幽灵已经被消除。
- 4. This realpolitik world would be stable : the specter of mutual assured destruction would compel cooperation among powers of relatively similar economic size .
- 强权政治的世界将趋向稳定：伺机相互打击的幽灵将会推动经济总量大小近似的国家间的合作。
- 5. The specter of race hangs over all of this : will the first black president be wrongly deemed a failure , as the majority of one-term presidents are ?
- 种族的幽灵笼罩着这所有的一切：第一位黑人总统是否将和大部分未能获得连任总统一样，被错误地认为是失败者？